 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue*. VI. OP SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. < . Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth, best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...the heart by the pleasure \of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacon. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1852 - 332 pages
...himself beside the body, and burst into tears. 160 161 CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed :...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pages
...the following sentences, viz.: — * Longfellow's "Hyperion." " Virtue is like precious odours, mottt fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, hut adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacons JSssay," Of Adversity'-' " The joys of parents... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...wise sayings of Lord Bacon, that, " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are most incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Dr. Cheever draws some very useful and important lessons from the processes of vegetation, as illustrative... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, with three ascents and alleys, enough for four to...have to be perfect circles, without any bulwarks VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 pages
...destruction and perdition." It was the saying of Lord Bacon, " certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Many are now in hell, cursing their success in business and their worldly prosperity, because by it... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - 1855 - 468 pages
...melancholy work on a lightsome ground. " Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, the more precious when incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Indeed, to carry out this thought to its boldest conclusions, is sin and imperfection in this world... | |
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We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly... 
